d6 items of interest week of march 26

So no I did not create a space for “white people”. Its a place where a proper and not one sided conversation can happen. The consequences of the simplified debate around cultural appropriation lead to two extremes: the ones who trivialize it and the ones who exaggerate it.

Fairly soon, we will reconvene the Landmarks Ordinance Review Committee for part 2 of the update of the Landmarks Ordinance. There will be one new alder serving on the committee to replace a member who is no longer on the council. This is an all alder committee.

However, the level of new IVA approvals fell back in 2007 and the first half of 2008. This article charts the transformation of the IVA from a bankruptcy alternative originally designed for insolvent traders and professionals into a tool of consumer debt relief. It then seeks to explain both the stellar rise in IVA usage among consumer debtors and the subsequent stalling of IVA growth.

Density estimates were significantly higher for Bou Rouch than for vacuum pump samples in four sediment treatments, but were comparable in coarse gravel. The body size of organisms captured by the Bou Rouch technique was comparable to the population mean, whereas those in vacuum pump samples were smaller. With hyporheic invertebrates suggested as future biomonitors of ecosystem health, we recommend Bou Rouch sampling as the more effective pump sampling method for community characterization..

Coronaviruses are a broad family of viruses and are named so because of the crown like spikes on their surface. Human coronaviruses were first identified in the mid 1960s. It is important to understand that there are hundreds of coronaviruses, most of which circulate among animals including pigs, camels, bats and cats.

Kamala D. Harris (D Calif.) offered her endorsement in a video. It looked as though she’d recorded it in an alley at dusk. Please, please don do that. If you have no clear favourites and you flexible, then there no issue. But if you feel you made for Mech/Elec/ or CS then don go in a totally different directions..

Now comes the next step.”If consumers adopt Amazon’s phones and that’s a big ‘if,’ considering they love their iPhones and love their Android devices it can then consolidate e readers into smartphones, just like cameras and music players have been consolidated,” said Rebecca Lieb, an analyst with the Altimeter Group. “The Kindle is going to be front and center on this device.”Amazon at the moment is publicly fighting with several media suppliers, including Hachette and Warner Home Video in the United States and Bonnier in Germany. It wants better terms, as it nearly always does, and the media companies are resisting.”If the phone takes off, there could conceivably be more battles with suppliers, who will have to balance their fear of Amazon with their desire to sell more product,” Lieb said.